I read a rather trenchant critique of the hereditarian position this week just his week in fact, but if I were before that asked to give odds, at least against the purely environmental position explaining the IQ deficits, I would have easily bet against it at 2: 1.

I read a rather trenchant critique of the hereditarian position this week just his week in fact, but if I were before that asked to give odds, at least against the purely environmental position explaining the IQ deficits, I would have easily bet against it at 2:1.

Turkheimer believes that only research that supports the Boasian environmentalist position should be accepted by the respectable scientific community and that hereditarian views on the race and IQ question are too disgusting to be considered in polite company.

This time the band of hereditarian psychometricians minced no words: according to them, American blacks were genetically inferior to other Americans in every regard, and these psychometricians insisted they had the data to prove it.